Article: Law still holds key Vatican positions. (Church In Crisis).(Bernard F. Law, Cardinal, still holds key Catholic Church decision-making positions.)

With his Dec. 13 resignation in Rome, Cardinal Bernard Law may appear to have closed the book on his stormy tenure as archbishop of Boston. The reality, however, is that the story is far from finished, either for Law or for Boston.

For Law himself the question now seems to be "What's next?" For Boston, however, it's more like "Who's next?"

One looming question for Law is whether his resignation as archbishop will satisfy critics, or whether new demands will arise that he also renounce his membership in the College of Cardinals. (Law's Dec. 13 resignation concerned only his role as head of the church in Boston; hence he remains a cardinal, bishop and ...

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